Personal Chair: Sarah Wild

Sarah Wild has been made a Personal Chair in Epidemiology.

Professor Wild undertook her pre-clinical training and intercalated BSc in basic medical sciences in pharmacology at King’s College London.

She then moved to St John’s College and Addenbrooke’s Hospital at the University of Cambridge for her clinical training.

Her postgraduate experience was in general medicine and diabetes, general practice and public health medicine in Ipswich, Cambridge and Wessex.

She has both MSc and PhD degrees in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Professor Wild did a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular epidemiology at Stanford University and had a secondment to the Burden of Disease team at the World Health Organization in Geneva.

She became a lecturer at the University of Southampton in 2000 and moved to the University of Edinburgh as a senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health in 2002.

Sarah’s main research interests are the epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases, particularly among women and different socio-economic and ethnic groups, and the use of routine data for research.